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Jason Owen 1
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Jason Owen 1
Description
A portrait of Mr. John Vogt, Regional Director of Operations for White Castle with a work member from White Castle are standing in front of the White Castle on Queens Boulevard in Long Island City, New York
Subjects
, Fast food restaurants--United States, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.), Black-and-white photography, Portrait, Vogt, John, Alumni
Publisher
LaGuardia Community College
Johnny Tsang 1
Title
Johnny Tsang 1
Description
Mr. John Vogt, Regional Director of Operations for White Castle holding his LaGuardia Community College ID card from the early years of the college
Subjects
, Fast food restaurants--United States, Long Island City (New York, N.Y), Vogt, John, Alumni
Publisher
LaGuardia Community College
Johnny Tsang 3
Title
Johnny Tsang 3
Description
Mr. John Vogt, Regional Director of Operations for White Castle standing behind the counter in White Castle speaking to a customer
Subjects
, Fast food restaurants--United States, Vogt, John, Long Island City (New York, N.Y.), Alumni
Publisher
LaGuardia Community College
John Hyland
Title
John Hyland
Description
John Hyland was a professor in the Social Sciences and an early faculty member. He was very involved with the PSC Union (0:28) John Hyland is a long time member of LaGCC. He started at LaGCC in 1972. (0:42) Professor Hyland discusses the faculty in the beginning of LaGCC. Says it was a very lively faculty and there was a sense of LaGCC being a different college (2:48) Professor Hyland speaks about past faculty of LaGCC. He mentions Tom French who was involved in the student movement of the 1960s and John Cato involved in civil rights activities. Talks about his past as a priest and involvement in community organizing and the welfare rights movement. (4:16) Professor Hyland did his PhD on the formation of LaGuardia Community College. (5:11) Mentions Prof. Lenny Saremsky, (Leonard Saremsky) who was in the Math department. (7:47) Discussed the curriculum, the notion of innovation in the college, and Intensive courses related to the urban environment. He also spoke about the Main Building and about the surrounding area of businesses and companies. (8:43) Professor Hyland described how Intensives were taught. (9:37) Speaks about Social Science department and early faculty interest. (10:28) Talks about the organization of academic departments. The Social Science department started as Personality and Behavior and then became Social Science. (11:58) “LaGCC was established as a Cooperative Education College and [it] was, in some ways, one of the defining characteristics of the college.” (13:09) Talks about how faculty worked collaborated to coordinate teach courses and the Satellite College (14:49) Discusses a course on community control of public education for paraprofessionals. (16:33) Speaks about the curriculum for the Social Science department and Introductory courses. Talks about creating textbooks to fit student’s needs. (24:21) Discusses the fiscal crisis in 1975 and how the college shut down for two weeks. (27:19) Speaks about the late 1980s and 1990s fiscal crisis and it effects. (29:42) Discusses student enrollment and diversity in the early years and the 1980s. (34:06) Says there was a strong population at LaGCC of female students, women going to college and women and the workforce. (34:44)Says there was a variety of programs and Cooperative Education was a very strong component at the college and very community oriented. (36:20)Goes over student internships. (41:52)He said the fiscal crisis had taken its toll on innovation at the college, and how that makes the college distinctive.
Subjects
Hyland, John, Hyland, John, 25th Anniversary, 25th Anniversary, Oral History, Oral History
Publisher
LaGuardia Community College (New York, N.Y)

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